Word Parts
Nephr/o
What is the combining form for kidney
Nephron
What is the functional unit of the kidney?
Cystitis
What term means inflammation of the bladder?
Cystoscopy
What procedure is the visual examination of the bladder?
Polyuria
What term means excessive urination?
Ur/o
What combining from means pertaining to urine?
Ureter
What carries the urine from the kidney to the bladder?
Oliguria
What term means scanty urination?
Intravenous pyelogram
What is a set of X-ray images of the kidney, ureters, and bladder with intravenous contrast medium?
Hemodialysis
What procedure removes waste from the blood?
-uria
What suffix means urinating or relating to urine?
Renal pelvis
Where is urine collected before it enters the ureters?
Dysuria
What term means difficult or painful urination?
Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy
What procedure destroys a stone using sound waves?
Nocturnal enuresis
What term is also known as bed wetting?
Lith/o
What is the combing form that means stone (or calculus)?
Urethra
What carries the urine from the bladder to outside of the body?
Acute renal failure
What term means the sudden inability of the kidneys to perform their functions?
CAPD
What is Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis?
Pyelonephritis
What term means inflammation of the renal pelvis and kidney?
-lysis
What suffix means breakdown or destruction?
Urethral meatus
What is the external opening of the urethra?
Nephrolithiasis
What is the term for a kidney stone?
Catheterization
What is the procedure to insert a tube into the urethra in order to empty the bladder of urine?
Hematuria
What is the term for blood in the urine?